They were going well." Chayne shook his head at the hopeful words and handed his telegram to Michel Revailloud.
"The day before yesterday they were on the rocks of the Blaitiere," he said.

"I think we had better go up to the Mer de Glace and look for them at the foot of the cliffs." "Monsieur, I have eight guides here and two will follow in the evening when they come home.

We will send three of them, as a precaution, up the Mer de Glace.

But I do not think they will find Monsieur Lattery there." "What do you mean ?" "I mean that I believe Monsieur Lattery has made the first passage of the Col des Nantillons from the east," he said, with a peculiar solemnity.

"I think we must look for them on the western side of the pass, in the crevasses of the Glacier des Nantillons." "Surely not," cried Chayne.